Sentence examples for We were tricked from inspiring English sources
"We were tricked," said the 68-year-old former Benfica manager.
"Farmers are saying, 'We were tricked,' " said Uldis Krievars, a dairy farmer and deputy chairman of Farmers Parliament, which helped organize the tractor demonstrations last month.
It would be convenient for supporters of the war, such as this newspaper, to claim we were tricked into it by Mr Blair; convenient, but unfair.
The world according to Kramer is one in which "we the people" not only shared in construing the Constitution but also rendered the final verdict on its meaning -- until "sometime in the past generation or so," when we were tricked into losing our constitutional voice and submitting meekly to judicial imperialism.
At the time I thought it was brilliant, we were tricking these unsuspecting geriatrics into doing what I thought was the right thing: voting for my candidate and the Labor Party via manipulative word-association.
Are we being tricked into thinking that Iran is a bigger threat than it is?
We are tricked by hope into starting companies, beginning books, immigrating to this country and investing in telecom networks.
I don't care if we're tricked into empathising, even sympathising with her, just so long as we get hamartia, hubris and anagnorisis as well.
The fact that "Go in a pope, come out a cardinal" has nonetheless become a cliché is a good reminder of how easily we are tricked by small sample sizes.
